Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-10

candidates for Office to have il in their
power to disfrsnchise sufficient number
OF the followers Of sn opponent to rem
der reelection easy and certain, but il
would be found impracticable. Adopt
once the principle that the msjority By
the force of votes has right to disfran-
chise the minority, and there are but lew
steps 10 take before anarchy is reached
Notwithstanding the fact that Mr.. ingalls,
is "stal Wart among the stslWsrt" Re-
publicans, and g bright and shining
light in that pious confederation OF nu
manitarians who make the love OF Sambo
the chief article Of their creed, he thinks
that Fred Douglas, and from him down
to the old corn field pappy, should be con-
tent with measure Of liberty that
stopped short Of the bsllot-boX. He
says: at must be admitted that thus far
the experiment of negro suffrage in the
south, under the constitutional amend
ments, mas been an absolute snd IN.
qualified failure. None of the anticipa-
tons Of its promoters have been realized"
"rhe anticipations of its promoters"
may have been meritorious, but the char
acter OF craftsmanship with which Mr..
Ingalls, is blessed could see no objections
to the experiment until the colored
brother commenced voting the Demo-
cratic ticket. The negro has been voting
nearly g quarter OF a century, and he has
learned pretty well the value Of vote.
For the first few years he voted without
being in sny way opposed by the votes
of the southern whites who were
nos permitted to vote, and what
ever wrongs have been committed
in the past, by comforting the right
10 vote on the negro, they are growing
less every year and viii in time pass
away The school of politics to whica
MIR ingalls, belongs Is responsible for the
ideas which tnat gentleman entertains
The cardinal features of Republicanism
are Capitalization, control. power and the
elevation Of one class and the debasement
of another. The leaders .re either NO
nopoists and millionaires or the lackey5
of monopoliss aud millionaires, and,
with pr@torial arrogance, theys seek to
enslave the proletariat. They dis
trust the people and would de
prive them OF the power to defend them
selves against the entertainments and op
preston Of the rich. Senator ingalls, has
been in the american House of lords
so long that he imagines thst only those
who can secure an election 10 some hiGt
oflice know anything about the duties c
citizenship Sangtor Ingalls, admits that
Withdrawing the ballot from those who
now possess it is beyond the power o
practical politics, out his horror Of com
mon votes is such that it would require
but little encouragement to induce t2'
doughty Senator to take the field and seel
to accomplish his wishes By revolution
Hear him:
Suffrage, under our political system. ma
? been extended to the extreme limit consisten
{ with national safety. We have reached tn
danger line. 1t is too late to cure the evils an
correct the mistakes of the past. They are II
: remidiable and irreparable- The towards an
Il c demagogues of all political parties hsv
been emulous in obsequious subserVienCy l
: the most dangerous and destructive element
in our civilization.
S Ruin seize these truculent "dema
/ gogues and cowards," any way! T
/ those who have seriously considered IN
s prudence of restricting foreign immigra
ton, the following words of the Senate
: will sound true:
y Myriads, like the Poles, Firms, Italians an
Hungarians IN the mines CT Colorado, Obi
e and Pennsy lvania are only restrained 10y arme
forces from arson and massacre. Pauper
criminals, fugtives. malcontents outlaws
connecting links between the savage and tn
beast-the feculence of decaying nations. tn
q sediment and eXuvi;e of humanity are dis
harged like sewage upon the continent. In
emssaries of anarchy, the reinforce
j ments for the brute army Of ruiz
+ whose war cry is the destruction CT organize
government and social order, Whoee weapon
are the torch ard the bomb, are welcomed upo
= the strand with tumultuous waving of the staI
o spangled banner, with perpetual Fourth c
July, with continuous ~ ankee Doodle" an
Hail Columbia, Happy Land" with the tende
= of the ballot box and quarter section Of tn
public domai i, before they can speak the Ian
guage or distinguish the difference between tn
constitution of the nited States and the Pro
e verbs of Solomon.